Device for handling and bagging grain.



' F. L. PETRIE.

DEVICE POR HANDLING AND BAGGING GRAIN.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 1B, 1914.

Patented Feb. 9, 1915.

SLW/Mauna THE NORRIS PETERS C0., PHOTC-LITHOA. WASHINGTON. Dv C.

FRANK LESTER Pn'rnrn, or.- Rnnwoon, NEWL YORK-.f

DEVICE FOR HANDLING AND BAGGING- GRAIN.

specificati@ .of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. e, i915.

Application filed April 18, 1914. Serial No. 832,833.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK L. PETRIE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Redwood, in the county of Jefferson and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for lalandling and Bagging Grain, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for handling and bagging grain and other materials, and it has for its object to produce a device of this class which will be simple in construction and efficient in operation.

A further object of the invention is to produce a bagging device comprising a hollow tubular scoop, a flexible duct connected therewith and a bag holding member connected with the duct.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device of the class described including a duct through which the material that is to be handled will be conveyed from the scooping means to the bag or receptacle.

With these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing has been illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claim may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing, Figure l is a perspective view illustrating the device as it would appear in operation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken through the scoop and a portion of the duct connected therewith. Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken through the discharge end of the duct and the bag holding member.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The improved device includes a hollow tubular scoop 15, having an inlet 16 and provided with projecting handles 17 whereby it may be manipulated. The rear end of the scoop 1s connected with one endv of a flexible duct 18 which lmay be constructed of textile or other suitable material, said duct being preferably made slightly tapering toward its discharge end which is connected with a bag holding member consisting of a tapering band 19, the small end of which is connected with the duct 18, as shown.

20 is a hoop of a diameter somewhat less than the large end of the band 19 it is exteriorly mounted.

ln the use of this device, the member 19 of the bag holding device is inserted into the mouth of the bag, the latter being shown at on which 21,. and the hoop 2O beingthen adjusted ex# teriorly over the mouth of the bag which is thus retained frictionally. The scoop may now be grasped by the handles 17 and filled with grain or other material which, by lifting the scoop and tilting the receiving end thereof upwardly, will be dischargedl through the duct 1S and into the bag which, when 'lilled, may be detached and tied.

It has been stated that the flexible duct 18 is made to taper slightly toward its dis charge end. This feature will be best seen by reference to Fig. 3, where the small end of the duct is shown as being connected with a tapering band 19, the small end of which is connected with the duct 18. The bag holding hoop 20 is of smaller diameter than the large end of the band 19 on which it is thus safely retained, it being capable of being easily manipulated for thepurpose of holding a bag in position; for lilling. On the other hand, the tubular scoop 15 is ofrelatively large diameter, and it is in addition provided with projecting handles, thus positively preventing the hoop from slipping over said scoop and being lost. rlhe parts of the device are thus incapable of being separated, and a complete and always ready and useful device isthus provided. v V' Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

A bagging device comprising a tubular scoop having projecting'handles, a flexible duct connected with the discharge end of said scoop, said duct being 'tapering in the direction of its. discharge end, a tapering bag n testimony whereof I a-TX my signature supporthg band having its small end c011- in presence of two Witnesses. neotecl Wlth the Small end of the duct, and FRANK LESTER PETRIE.

a hoop externally engaging the tapering bag supporting band, said hoop being of Witnesses: smaller diameter than the large end of the W F. BROWN, band. N. L. WEST.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents,

Washington, D. C. 

